390 GREAT TITMOUSE. Class II. 



XXV. TIT- BILL flrait, fliort, hard, ftrong, fharp-pointed, 



a little comprefled. 

 NOSTRILS round covered with bridles. 

 TONGUE as if cut at the end, terminating with 



two or three bridles. 



162. Great. Nonette ou Mefange. £e/on Lin.fyft, 341. 



a'v. 376. Talg-oxe. Faun. Suec.fp. 26^. 



Parus major Gefner av. 640. Le grofTe Mefange ou la Char- 



AUt\ a'v, II. 319. bonnierc. BriJJon a'v. III. 



Spernuzzola, Paruffola. Oil- 539. 



nay 28. PI Enl 3. f. i. 



Great Titmoufe, or Ox-eye. Mufvit. Brunnich, 287. 



Wil. orn. 240. Kohlmeife . Kram . 378. 



Ran fyn, aij 73. Frifch, I. 13. 



Snitza. ScopoH, No. 242. Br. ZooL 113. plate W. f. 4. 



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HIS fpecies fometimes vidts our gardens-, but 

 chiefly inhabits woods, where it builds in 

 hollow trees, laying about ten eggs. This, and 

 the whole tribe feed on infedts, which they find in 

 the bark of trees ; in the fpring they do a great 

 deal of mifchief in the fruit garden, by picking off 

 the tender buds. Like wood-peckers they are per- 

 petually running up and down the bodies of trees 

 in qued of food. The bird has three chearful 

 notes, which it begins to utter in the month of Fe- 

 bruary, 

 Descrip. The head and throat of this fpecies are black; 

 the cheeks white j the back green .the belly of a 



yellowilb 



